Thank you Ariel Sharon, et al.
By Ariel Natan Pasko
web posted May 10, 2004
Thank you Ariel Sharon for your Gaza Disengagement Plan. Due
to your willingness to call for "transferring" -- i.e. expelling Jews
from a part of their historic homeland -- the Gazan Jewish
community; Likud Party members were given an opportunity to
voice their opposition to your plan. And voice they did; an
overwhelming majority -- about 60 per cent -- rejected your
plan.
Thank you Ariel Sharon, due to your threats against the Gazan
Jewish community, an estimated 70-100,000 people came to
Gush Katif in Gaza recently, on Israeli Independence Day (120-
150,000 including those stuck in traffic or turned away by the
police), to show their support for the Gazan Jews and to register
their opposition to your plan. It brought the largest Jewish
presence to Gaza in modern times. More Israelis are interested
in seeing Gaza today, and connecting to the communities there,
than ever before.
Thank you ministers Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livne, Silvan Shalom
and others from the Likud; and thank you Shinui Party ministers,
Yosef Lapid, Avraham Poraz, and Avraham Paritzky for helping
also.
And so as not to "discriminate" against the opposition politicians
in Israel; thank you members of Knesset, Shimon Peres, Dalia
Itzik, Avraham Burg, Matan Vilnai, etc. from the Labor Party,
and lets not forget MKs Zahava Gal-On, Yossi Sarid and those
from Yahad (formerly Meretz), who just as graciously helped the
Gazan Jewish community, by threatening their very existence.
I'd also like to thank all those in the Israeli electronic and print
media who have jumped on the "disengagement bandwagon" to
promote an ethnic cleansing campaign in Israel. In particular, I'd
like to thank the trinity of Larry Derfner from the Jerusalem Post
and Haaretz's Akiva Eldar and Amira Hass, for their constant
prattle against "settlers," and their support for Prime Minister
Sharon's expulsion plan.
Finally, I'd like to thank Chief Justice Aharon Barak and the
Israeli Supreme Court, who if they would uphold the legality of
the Sharon government's Gaza plan to expropriate the property
-- with or without compensation -- of Israeli citizens and expel
them from their homes, would be setting an important legal
precedent for the future.
All these supporters of Sharon's Disengagement Plan believe it is
for the best interests of the State of Israel and it's national
security.
Why, might you ask, do I thank all these people?
Plain and simple, because it's dawned on me, that as good
democratically minded citizens of the State of Israel; if they
support "ethnic cleansing" of Jews from Gaza today, tomorrow
their support can be counted on, if a future Israeli government
comes to power that wants to remove Israeli Arabs and the so-
called Palestinians, from the historic Land of Israel, for the best
interests of the State of Israel and it's national security.
Since I assume that none of these fair-minded people mentioned
above, would contemplate treating Jews in a different and
inferior way, to the way they would treat Arabs; I assume that
none of these fine Israeli citizens planning to "ethnically cleanse"
their fellow citizens from Gaza, would discriminate against people
just because they are Jews.
Thoughts of calling them racist, Nazi, Judeo-path, or anti-Semite,
might cross one's mind, if that were true -- that they only would
support the expulsion of "settlers" i.e. Jews -- from parts of
Israel, but since I'm convinced that's not the case, one needn't
worry.
No, these fine citizens, from Sharon, Netanyahu, and Olmert of
Likud, to Peres and his Labor colleagues on down, have opened
the Pandora's Box of "ethnic cleansing," never to be shut again.
In the future -- I believe not so distant -- a future Jewish leader
can rest assured of the political support of these people, to carry
out a "transfer" policy against "enemies" that threaten the lives
and welfare of Israel's Jewish population. Based on legal
precedent, such policy will demand the support of those who
earlier worked to expel Jews from Gaza. If they won't want to
be accused of being racists, Nazis, Judeo-paths, or anti-Semites,
they will have to support such a policy.
Then again, they can admit the truth...and be prosecuted, by that
future Israeli government.
Thank you Ariel Sharon.
Ariel Natan Pasko is an independent analyst & consultant. He
has a Master's Degree in International Relations & Policy
Analysis. His articles appear regularly on numerous news/views
and think-tank websites, in newspapers, and can be read at:
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